Once Upon a Book Memoirs and Esmé Weijun Wang writes

and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well

but right now

when Roland proposes

Lily rolls bandages and crafts quilts with her sewing circle for other soldiers too

this book tells the story of a musical and cultural shift that started on the streets of Shaolin (Staten Island) and quickly spread around the world

Once Upon a Book Memoirs and Esmé Weijun Wang writesFrom Caldecott and Newbery Honoree Grace Lin and bestselling author Kate Messner comes a modern folktale about the joy of reading. Once upon a time, there was a girl. She went to a place alive with colors, where even the morning dew was warm. Alice loves to imagine herself in the magical pages of her favorite book. So when it flaps its pages and invites her in, she is swept away to a world of wonder and adventure, riding camels in the desert, swimming